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noun

• A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

  Example: The king ruled his domain harshly.

• A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

  Example: Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.

• A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

• The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.

• The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

• A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

• An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

• Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

• A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

• A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

• The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

• A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.

• Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.

• (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

• The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

• A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome